Scientific conference 'Nghe An - 990 years of formation and development'

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai - Permanent Deputy Director of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi; Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan - Vice President in charge of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the Workshop.

Panorama of the scientific conference "Nghe An - 990 years of formation and development". Photo: Thanh Cuong

Attending the workshop were comrades: Le Quang Huy - Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Science, Technology and Environment; Major General Ha Tan Tien - Deputy Commander of Military Region 4; Truong Dinh Tuyen - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Trade, former Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; Ho Xuan Hung - former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, former Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee and former comrades of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee.

Members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, localities, departments, branches and sectors in the province and the participation of many management agencies and professional agencies, nearly 100 scientists from different fields (archaeology, geography, history, culture, heritage, tourism...)

The comrades chaired the scientific conference "Nghe An - 990 years of formation and development". Photo: Thanh Cuong

Speaking at the opening of the Workshop, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed: The scientific workshop "Nghe An - 990 years of formation and development"to recreate the historical appearance; affirm the position, role and great contributions of the land and people of Nghe An in the nation's long journey of building and defending the country.

At the same time, continue to affirm and honor the historical, cultural, patriotic and revolutionary traditions of Nghe An homeland, thereby expressing the sentiments and morality of remembering the source of water for generations of ancestors who have contributed to building and defending the country; contributing to preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values ​​of Nghe An people in the period of integration and development.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province delivered the opening speech at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

“With great confidence and expectation, through this Workshop, Nghe An province hopes that delegates, scientists, and leading experts nationwide will analyze, discuss, research, clarify and provide scientific arguments, propose tasks and solutions to contribute to planning policies and mechanisms to build and develop the socio-economy, consolidate the political system, national defense and security; strengthen and expand foreign relations with the aspiration to rise up, contributing to Nghe An's rapid and sustainable development”, said the Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee spoke at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Speaking at the workshop, comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council emphasized: This is a very important event in a series of practical activities to celebrate the 990th anniversary of the Nghe An name, continuing to promote, honor and spread the great cultural and spiritual values, historical traditions, and glorious revolution of Nghe An homeland.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council spoke at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Party Central Committee Secretary Nguyen Xuan Thang emphasized: With greater awareness and responsibility for history, inheriting the heroic revolutionary tradition of the homeland, and showing gratitude for the great contributions of generations of Nghe An people, the Party Committee and People of Nghe An today have made greater efforts and determination to build a rich, strong, modern, and civilized homeland of Nghe An.

Recalling the sacred testament, which is also the simple and profound wish of President Ho Chi Minh in the Letter to the Nghe An Party Committee in 1969: "Nghe An is a large province, with rich resources and hard-working people. I hope that the people and comrades of the province will strive to make Nghe An quickly become a prosperous province of the North", Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang suggested that through the Workshop, Nghe An province summarize the practice, collect more historical, cultural and archaeological evidence, contributing to deepening the process of formation and development of Nghe An province.

Delegates attending the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

From there, we can have more scientific arguments, honor the historical values ​​and cultural traditions of the land and people of Nghe An, transform cultural and historical values ​​into development values ​​for the province, and contribute to strongly affirming the great contributions of Nghe An province in the process of building and defending the country, in the struggle for national independence in the past, as well as in the cause of building and defending the Vietnamese Fatherland in the present era.

In particular, emphasizing the issue of promoting the historical and cultural traditions of Nghe An people, comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang noted that it is necessary to widely spread the message of a united, creative Nghe An, full of will and aspiration to rise up, with high determination and great efforts to achieve high results in socio-economic development as set out in the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025. Strive by 2025, Nghe An will become a fairly developed province in the North and by 2030, become a fairly developed province in the whole country as wished by the great President Ho Chi Minh, as well as the wishes of all Nghe An people.

Speaking at the workshop, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai - Permanent Deputy Director of Hanoi National University affirmed: Among the 63 provinces and cities of the country, Nghe An is a special province; a land of spiritual land and talented people, truly a miniature Vietnam because it fully converges natural and population factors. With the above typical characteristics, it is the premise leading to the formation, development, and important contributions of Nghe An to the historical process of the nation; it is a strategic location to implement the Party and State's policies to stabilize politics - society, develop the economy, integrate internationally, and contribute to the overall development of the whole country.

Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai - Permanent Deputy Director of Hanoi National University spoke at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Introducing the Workshop, Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan - Vice Principal in charge of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities said that the Workshop received 68 articles from scientists in many different fields of expertise, along with managers, agencies, departments, and branches at the central and local levels.

The presentations focused on in-depth analysis of many aspects from geography, history, culture, education, politics, diplomacy, integration, and development, focusing on three main groups of topics.

First of all, it is about the geography, history and development of Nghe An province. Accordingly, the articles all agree that the name Nghe An first appeared in 1030 under the reign of King Ly Thai Tong when the king issued an edict to change the name of Hoan Chau to Nghe An Chau, from here the name Nghe An began to be determined.

Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan - Vice Principal in charge of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities delivered the opening speech at the Conference. Photo: Thanh Cuong

This also affirms the rich tradition of Nghe An land, the connection of Nghe An with changes in history and national politics.

The presentations also clarified Nghe An's contributions to the nation's historical process; Nghe An's development potential in the upcoming development journey.

The workshop directly listened to 7 presentations, with the following contents: Prof. Dr. Lam Thi My Dung - Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities presented a presentation with the topic: Nghe An in prehistoric times, current status and potential of archaeological heritage.

Prof. Dr. Lam Thi My Dung - Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities presented a paper at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Comrade Truong Dinh Tuyen - former Minister of Trade, former Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee presented a speech with the topic: "Promoting potential and strengths, overcoming limitations and weaknesses of Nghe An and Nghe An people, bringing the province to develop quickly and sustainably".

Researcher Dao Tam Tinh - former Director of Nghe An Library presented a paper with the topic: "Tradition of studiousness, respect for teachers and academic achievements of Nghe An people"...

Comrade Truong Dinh Tuyen presented a paper at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Researcher Dao Tam Tinh presented a paper at the Workshop. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The papers presented directly at the Workshop, as well as those sent to the Workshop, were assessed by the Organizing Committee as rich, of high theoretical significance and practical value, meeting the objectives of the Workshop.

In his closing speech at the scientific workshop "Nghe An - 990 years of formation and development", Mr. Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee emphasized the important contents clarified and affirmed through the workshop; at the same time, affirmed the province's determination to rise up worthy of its 990-year heroic tradition and its political and social position.

Delegates take souvenir photos on the sidelines of the Conference. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy emphasized: With a rich and heroic tradition of 990 years of continuous formation and development, with the current political and social position, especially with a longer-term vision in the development process of the province following the Party's innovation policy, which has been concretized into development viewpoints in the Documents of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025, the Party Committee, government, people, and armed forces of Nghe An province will continue to unite, make more efforts, and have higher determination to strive to complete the goal by 2025, Nghe An will become a fairly developed province in the Northern region, and by 2030 become a fairly developed province in the whole country.

“When Nghe An solemnly celebrates its 1,000th anniversary, the province's political, economic, social, cultural and international integration status will be raised to a new level, satisfying the wishes of beloved Uncle Ho during his lifetime, responding to the attention of the Central Government, the aspirations of comrades and people in the province and the whole country,” said the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee.

ACTIVITIES TO CELEBRATE THE 990TH ANNIVERSARY OF NGHE AN'S NAME

- 8:00 a.m., November 30, 2020: Scientific conference "Nghe An 990 years of formation and development" at Nghe An Giao Te Hotel.

- 3:30 p.m., November 30, 2020: Photo exhibition "Historical milestones of the formation of Nghe An province in Nguyen Dynasty Woodblocks - World Documentary Heritage" at Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho statue, Vinh city.

- 3:30 p.m., November 30, 2020: Photo exhibition "Nghe An Integration and Development" at Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho statue, Vinh city.

- 8:00 p.m., November 30, 2020: Ceremony to celebrate the 990th anniversary of Nghe An's title and receive the Certificate of Special National Monument of Hoanh Son communal house at Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho's statue, Vinh city.

- Morning of December 1, 2020: Procession of the Royal Enthronement Ceremony and offering of flowers and incense at the Hoanh Son Communal House National Special Monument in Khanh Son Commune, Nam Dan District, Nghe An Province.